Assendelft
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Edmund Petrovich Assendelft was a zemstvo physician who worked in Vetoshkino village, Nizhny Novgorod province. He developed a high suprapubic lithotomy technique with minimal postoperative care that became widely adopted in Russia.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
Assendelft, Edmund Petrovich, zemstvo physician who worked in the village of Vetoshkino, Sergachevsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Province. Born in 1848 in Livland Province, graduated from the Derpt (Yuryev) University in 1872. Based on the principle that operating on bladder stones in rural conditions required the simplest possible care for the patient, A. performed high suprapubic lithotomy without subsequent suturing of the bladder and kept patients lying on their abdomens during the postoperative period. At the VII Pirogovsky Congress in Kazan, he reported on 630 cases of high suprapubic lithotomy with a 2.5% mortality rate. This was a period when there was a debate about the advantages of various methods for operating on bladder stones; the results obtained by A. marked an era in the history of the treatment of stone disease in Russia. High suprapubic lithotomy received full recognition and widespread dissemination from this time, completely replacing perineal lithotomy.
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“Assendelft.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/assendelft/